In Tijuana we watched a NOOMA video called "Rhythm" by Rob Bell. I've never watched a NOOMA before, and this has become one of my favorite videos ever. Too bad I can't/haven't watched the other ones because they are not free, but short clips are available on YouTube (oh youtube.)
I don't know. Some of the people in TJ were saying that they didn't think the messages by John were challenging enough, but, that makes me frustrated. What more of a challenge can there be than to do justice? To seek it for others? To firmly believe that every single person, even ones that we have never even seen or heard of, deserves just as much if not more than all these freaking things we have? Especially when we're living in a world that makes it so easy for us to make it just how much we choose to see?
Sometimes I wonder why God made it that way. Why is it that we never have to see and interact with the other half, actually more than half- of the world. Why can't we be able to see that every other person that we meet lives each day like a gamble for the most basic needs. Like why is the U.S., Europe, Canada, the wealthier Southeast Asia, and other countries that we think make up the whole world when in reality is only barely 10% of it- why are we so isolated and unaware? Why don't we all live in one big land or something. So that we can see. Just how much we have and what that means.
But then again. He didn't intend it to be that way.
And I am nowhere near showing that I am always conscious and considerate of the rest of the world. I have never been that involved in a cause or an organization (I hope to start in college) and it is ridiculously easy to just fall back into being occupied with my own set of 'inconveniences'.
It only seems to make sense though- it only seems justifiable- to use all these things, and make it count for them.
God is really hard to understand yet fascinating. I guess the more I get to know Him and how He works, like how He is all about justice- He hurts that the ones that He's given more to do not realize the reasons why they have so much, or even the fact that they do- Yet He is all about grace- loving mercy- and it makes perfect sense, because the world is hungry for grace, more than anything. Haha, it makes sense that the world is hungry for something that doesn't make any sense at all. Haha.
Anyways... yeah... that is the only thing that will manage to get its attention. The only thing that won't just 'add to the noise'.
I don't know how I got from the NOOMA video to this. Well I do... if you were in tune with His song, you would have to care for it.
I really like the analogy. Of a full orchestra playing in tune with His song. It's when you're too worried about the technical components, like how music is, and excessively concerned about how others are playing, that you're missing the point. You're inhibiting yourself from truly enjoying the music, from expressing what the instrument was made to do.
"Jesus came not to start a new religion but to bring raw reality"
What do I make my reality... What will I make my reality in the next four years?
